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That is some good news to wrap up a good year! Thanks Charles!

31-17 Ducks

Nice article on Dillon from espn this morning. He is in the right place to chase a Championship! Rose Bowl - Oregon's Dillon Gabriel on record-breaking journey - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM On the cusp of another record, Dillon Gabriel and teammates from three schools talk about his chase for rings, dealing with the death of teammates and his DJ skills.

Simple. Win out. Beat osu2 for a second time, then beat THEM. Them being any opponent who steps on the field, B1G, SEC, or Independent.

Oregon has won tight games and blowouts. They have come from behind to win. Multiple times. That builds confidence The Defense has bailed the Offense out when needed , and the Offense has bailed out the Defense when needed. They have shown that they trust each other, They have playmakers all over the field on both sides of the ball. Those playmakers step up and make plays for their teammates. I am more than reasonably confident that OBD emerges victorious on New Year’s Day and that DL and staff will guide this team to a 16-0 season! Having said that, I will indeed be on pins and needles during this game (and every game) because over the years I have seen the breaks break wrong at the wrong time too many times to forget. I have faith that this team will overcome my anxieties.

Right on Charles! This is the time to open the playbook and as DanLDuck says Release the Quack’en! Time to put together a complete game, hold nothing back and beat the buckeyes black and blue. I want to see our boys smiling and happy as they put some Defensive Domination and Offensive Annihilation on osu2. Cry Havoc and Release the Ducks of War! If OBD plays to their abilities, they will bring all of us a Happy New Year and the Dawn of a New Era in College Football.

Louis watching OBD!

Merry Christmas to all Duck fans everywhere! But most of all, Merry Christmas to Charles and to all you wonderful contributor's who frequent his forum with decorum! May OBD bring us A Happy New Year’s Buckeye Beatdown!!! Go Ducks!

After Round 1: ACC, 0-2, 0% SEC, 1-1, 50% B1G, 2-1, 66% Independent, 1-0, 100%

Not hearing anything about SMU not qualified to play PSU, even though they are currently down 38-3. Is it a TNT / ABC thing?

Notre Dame 17-14 4 turnovers (both teams) 5 sacks (both teams) less than 200 yards passing (either team) Low scoring, sloppy, snowy game.

Did DS just get in his “last word” in an engagement that DL won hands down over a year ago? Travis Hunter, a gifted athlete, won the Heisman, Deion Sanders, a flashy ex-athlete didn’t. The DS/BS Hype Train is really spinning its wheels trying to make something out of nothing! For the record, DL is 35-5 in 3 seasons at OR, DS was 27-6 in 3 seasons at Jackson State and is 13-11 in 2 seasons at Colorado. All DS showed DL is that he was able to take a 5 star player who was enamored with him, from J State to Colorado where there was such a talent void, the kid was able to play both sides. The kid was the No. 1 recruit in 2022 and the No. 1 portal transfer in 2023, so I think he had talent prior to DS’s coaching wizardry. Just sayin…

Regarding statistics and percentages, my ol’ dad used to say “Figures lie and liars figure.” I feel reasonably sure that OBD will be the last team standing come January 20. They have the depth, the balance, the bigs, and the playmakers. Our skill players line up well with any of the remaining competition. We also have Dan Lanning and one of the best coaching staffs in the CFP. However, according to the SEC writers, we might as well bless the SEC teams and just give it to them. No sense in playing, it is a waste of time. They feel the best B1G can’t hold the jock straps for the mighty SEC. What a bunch of hogwash! The only thing I would like better than beating SEC teams in each of our next 3 games would be to see the SEC have ZERO wins. Have their @$$es handed to them in each of their games. Go Ducks! Beat THEM!

I agree Charles, it is too long to wait between games. One week for a bye, sure, that is fair, and needed. 25 days between games??? That seems like it is begging for rust to set in. It is just plain too much time. Our Rose Bowl opponent got a bye week, then plays a game this weekend. The winner will get another partial bye week (11 days ) before they play us. I totally trust DL and his magnificent staff to have OBD ready, but it just doesn’t feel right to me

Assuming this is accurate: College football NIL collective leaders for 2025: NCAA estimates nation's top-25 spenders Oregon is 19th Sounds like we are pretty under-funded comparatively. Kind of blows their theory out of the water. Just like Navy just did Army. Go Ducks, Beat THEM!

We done beat osu2 and the top teams in the B1G, lets kick some SEC butt during the playoffs..

JRW, that is the guy who didn’t cover Kenyon Sadiq on his second TD! He was about a half second late in starting and was a good 10 or 12 yards away when Kenyon caught the pass.

Thank you Darren for posting an article that says what I have been thinking about since they named the 12! I even put it in a previous post: Since we have already vanquished the best the B1G has to offer, I would love to see the Ducks take out Tennessee in the Rose Bowl, then trash Texas in the Semi-final. That would set us up to beat the bulldogs for the Natty! 16-0, having beaten the best of the B1G AND the SEC, would pretty much cement OBD as a team for the ages! I was hoping someone would mention it, and you put it in better words, but captured it precisely! Thank you Sir! And Go Ducks!

OBD just needs to win out. Much easier said than done, but if anyone can it is DL’s 2024 DUCKS. Since we have already vanquished the best the B1G has to offer, I would love to see the Ducks take out Tennessee in the Rose Bowl, then trash Texas in the Semi-final. That would set us up to beat the bulldogs for the Natty! 16-0, having beaten the best of the B1G AND the SEC, would pretty much cement OBD as a team for the ages!

And the catch that wasn’t. Franklin whines about the refs not giving them the replay, yet he had his team snap the ball before they would have. The smart play would have been to throw the red flag, or at least delay the snap till the clock was down to 2 or 3 seconds, but PSU opted for a quick snap!

The LA teams felt real good about it til Oregon and Washington joined them, then the crying, whining, keaning, and wailing went to the next level. While the LA-La teams love and will continue to love their shares, they are not happy to be middle to bottom tier teams (which is where they will be for the foreseeable future). TV Execs came out on top. They rigged the game so they always do.

He deserves it. But I don’t think he gets it. The Powers That Be have overlooked and downplayed Oregon all year. Unfortunately, I don’t see that changing any time soon.

$$$ MONEY $$$. Greed for money. The PAC12 could not/would not pay the Trojans enough money so they took the cash-starve bruin baby brothers and bolted. When GK waived a paltry sum in the faces of the rest of the PAC, those who could, jumped ship for greener pastures. This who couldn’t blamed everything and everyone but themselves.. After all, the only thing they did not do was be worth enough $$$ for someone to went them, or they’d have bolted too… The Pacific State School Conference may call themselves the PAC whatever, but they will always by G5 pretenders. I don’t think they ever get recognized with a P4 designation.

The much maligned (by some of us) defense pulls it off! Nobody left that game til it was over, that for sure! Now we get a bye week to get ready for the second round of the playoffs! 13 and 0 baby! Go Ducks!

Has anyone seen anything from either of the top two SEC teams that would cause any worry if they lasted long enough to play OBD?